Photos: NASA releases newest photos from Mars

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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows shows one of the first views from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). It was taken through a “fisheye” wide-angle lens on one of the rover’s Hazard-Avoidance cameras.

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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows a color thumbnail image obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield when it was about 50 feet (16 meters) from the spacecraft.HO
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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows a color thumbnail image obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). This image from Curiosity’s Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet (meters) to many tens of feet (meters) in height. The image was obtained one minute 16 seconds before touchdown.HO
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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows a color thumbnail image obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). This image from Curiosity’s Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet (meters) to many tens of feet (meters) in height.HO
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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured an image of the rover gliding on its parachute. The image was taken with the orbiter’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The Mars Reconass MRO team located another object in this image -- not present in prior images of the same region -- which is the right size to be the rover’s heat shield. The heat shield was ejected from the rover and its back shell before this image was taken. The team thinks the heat shield is still in free flight, because, if it were to have already hit the surface, it would have kicked up a dust cloud. The HiRISE image of NASA’s Phoenix lander on its parachute also captured the heat shield in free fall.HO
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This image released on Tuesday Aug. 7,2012 by NASA shows the first color view of the north wall and rim of Gale Crater where NASA’s rover Curiosity landed Sunday night. The picture was taken by the rover’s camera at the end of its stowed robotic arm and appears fuzzy because of dust on the camera’s cover.HOPD
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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows shows one of the first views from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). The image shows what lies ahead for the rover -- its main science target, Mount Sharp. The rover’s shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes. Rising up in the distance is the highest peak Mount Sharp at a height of about 3.4 miles(5.4km), taller than Mt. Whitney in California.HO
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This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows a full-resolution version of one of the first images taken by a rear Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). The image was originally taken through the “fisheye” wide-angle lens, but has been “linearized” so that the horizon looks flat rather than curved.HO
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Photos: NASA releases newest photos from Mars

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